Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women of the Fali tribe, says Lebeuf, the toad represents the divine messenger who brought all wisdom from God to the first woman, the Fali Eve. The toad asked the woman to put plugs into her lips, shape her mouth like the wide palate of the toad, thus acquiring some of the toad's own strength and wisdom. No aids to beauty, the plugs were truly reli gious objects, passed on from mother to daughter. As told by women of the Sare tribe, however, the legend differs slightly. They believe that the first woman climbed down from heaven...
...close look at Mao's now enormous army. But they might find time to glance at the People's Daily leading article of July 24th, which emphasised that modern armed forces could not be built up without heavy industries, and to reflect on the wisdom of meeting all Peking's demands for British heavy machinery. They will doubtless hear much of the claim, advanced a few weeks ago by the Chinese trade mission to Britain, that ?100 million worth of trade could be done between the two countries in the coming year if strategic controls were abolished...
...without catastrophe. True, some French colonists may lose their estates. But if things go on as they are, they may lose their heads as well." Probably not many colons in Tunisia would agree with him; they hope to stay. Whether they will be able to depends on French wisdom and skill-on the wisdom to recognize a changing order, on the skill to adapt with it. So far, the signs are not promising...
...serious critiques of Flaubert, Peacock, Leopardi, and personal reminiscences of James Joyce, Franz Kafka. Virginia Woolf, Tolstoy and Oscar Wilde. This section is called Glimpses of Greatness, and Connolly aptly describes it as "a carillon of memories covering a recurring situation, the Maestro in all his simplicity and wisdom garrulously confronting his treacherous dumb disciple...
...with ferocious tenacity. When in 1656 a young scholar among them dared to range his brilliant mind beyond the confines of the faith-he doubted the existence of angels, the incorporeality of God and the soul's immortality, later recognized Jesus as a bearer of divine wisdom-the leaders of the Jewish community cast...